Saturday, September 24, 2011

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stimulating book stipulates the evolution of humanitarian intervention and heridea on human security as a paradigm. It also includes essays that explained
the impact of globalization on the emerging shift of traditional to human
security. She regarded human security as an encompassing notion that includes
both securitization and development. Further, this new paradigm involves
interrelated types of security from health, economic, political to environment.
She doesn’t want to use the term humanitarian intervention because according to
him it’s a narrow way of looking human security by calculating threats and
often not successful for crisis management and human development.

She defined human security as the security
of individuals and communities rather than security of states, and it combines
both human rights and human development. In one of the chapter of the book, she
presented the origin or history of how the term ‘human security’ emerged and
evolved. In relation with the aforementioned statement, Kaldor argued that
human security have developed into two directions. (1) The approach taken by
the Canadian government, which in her own words was “adopted and established a
network of like-minded states who subscribed to the concept,” i.e. responsibility
to protect, and was published in the 2005 Human Security Report. (2) The UNDP
approach which was also reflected in the work of the United Nations High-Level
Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. This approach according to Kaldor
emphasized the interrelatedness of different types of security and the
importance of development as a security strategy.

In her view it is imperative to combine
these two approaches to put emphasis on the security of the individual and the
interrelated character of security. In short, the concept is both ‘freedom from
fear’ and ‘freedom from want’. In setting out on how to implement her version
of human security into practice, she made five principles that are relevant to
both security and development. This was done to further her explanatory claim
and elaborate her case on human security as a paradigm. The first one was the primacy of human
rights which distinguished human security approach from the traditional state
security. In this principle, she meant for the avoidance of killing unless it
is necessary and legal.